Pageflakes 2.0

Pageflakes, the popular AJAX startpage has just relaunched with a host of new features, as well as a spanking new customizable design!

1. Community Site: A new Pageflakes community environment which allows you to search, submit, rate and discuss flakes and do much more. Get more widgets or flakes to beef up your startpage!
2. Page Templates: Dozens of pre-created page templates for topics like work, family, sports, finance, entertainment, education and many more. Now it takes just a mouse click to add a whole page with the best modules for a certain topic area - You don’t have to spend time searching for feeds and piecing your gae together!
3. Feeds and Podcasts: A Feed Directory and a Podcast Directory with hundreds of news feeds and podcasts from all over the world and for almost every category. Get the best feeds without ever leaving Pageflakes.
4. Share your page: Setting up a shared page with other users is now easier than ever. Share your favourite news feeds or notes with friends and family.
5. Public pages: A Public Pages Gallery of all the pages which Pageflakes users have published and which you can view. Let the world see what you are reading

What’s the hype about Start Pages?

Start pages are personal portals, and takes content management to the next level. In the words of Steve Rubel of Edelman PR…

“In the 1990s, there were a handful of big Internet portals. Some, like My Yahoo, became household names. Others died with the dot-com boom. But today the sheer mention of the word “portal” is a reminder of the days of excess. It’s a throwback to when every media company wanted to get big fast and become the destination where everyone starts their online day.

In the years since, the internet landscape has changed dramatically. For starters, we have the Long Tail. The web, with its abundant choices, has splintered into thousands of niches and sub-niches. Today, anyone can be a media company. And this has led to a — get this — portal renaissance.”